FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - The hair-raising scene of Maritza Martin Munoz collapsing under a hail of bullets left millions of television viewers stunned yesterday.

The assassination, at the hands of her ex-husband, was captured by a cameraman from the Telemundo network while a reporter watched from few feet away.

Emilio Nunez was being interviewed Monday by a crew from "Ocurrio Asi" ("It Happened That Way") about the suicide of his daughter, Yoandra Nunez. His ex-wife unexpectedly showed up at the North Lauderdale cemetery where the girl is buried.

While a reporter tried to talk to her, Nunez went to his car and got a 9-mm semiautomatic pistol. Then he walked up to Martin Munoz, 33, and shot her 12 times.

"I should have done it a long time ago," Nunez said seconds after the shooting. He jumped into his 1989 red Jeep Cherokee and fled, leaving behind his current wife, Odalis Perez, and her son.

Nunez, 34, remained a fugitive yesterday. Hialeah police found his Jeep at West 27th Avenue and 63rd Street.

The shocking videotape aired first on Telemundo and was quickly picked up by other news stations.

Nunez, who worked and lived on a farm in Delray Beach, was inconsolable over the death nearly two months ago of his 15-year-old daughter.

Yoandra Nunez committed suicide on Thanksgiving Day. The young high-school student was 13 weeks pregnant when she shot herself in the chest with a .25-caliber pistol.

Distraught over the suicide, Nunez had said that he was sure Martin Munoz was responsible for the girl's death. A few weeks ago, he called on the producers of the Telemundo program to do a story on his daughter's death.

He said that the day before her death, Yoandra and her mother had a heated discussion that ended with Martin Munoz slapping her daughter.